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    Realistic landing gear for x-wing —Ryan Dennett
   I finally got around to taking a couple of minutes to Ldraw this. I have shown the gear in landing and flight position. Depending on what you are using it on for a ship you might have to change it a little bit.This setup was off of the Z-95 that I (...) (26 years ago, 16-May-99, to lugnet.cad.dat.ideas)
   
        Re: Realistic landing gear for x-wing —Bram Lambrecht
   Here's the landing gear I added to my X-Wing. The studs on the rear landing gear should go in the middle of the engines, and I attached the front landing gear on the nose right before the body gets wider. (If only hull bricks were only 1 brick (...) (26 years ago, 16-May-99, to lugnet.cad.dat.ideas)
   
        Re: Realistic landing gear for x-wing —Terry Keller
     (...) It looks simple, and easy to do. Now why couldn't TLG have made the effort to do something similar, instead of the el-lamo hack they used? -- Terry K -- (26 years ago, 17-May-99, to lugnet.cad.dat.ideas)
    
         Re: Realistic landing gear for x-wing —Jonathan Wilson
     because they seem to want to use the "bridge" piece as much as possible :) i am surprised that lucasfilm let them use such an awful landing gear. probobly because TLG used the argument that to make anything good they would need to make a new piece (...) (26 years ago, 17-May-99, to lugnet.cad.dat.ideas)
    
         Re: Realistic landing gear for x-wing —Huw Millington
     jonathan wilson <wilsonj@xoommail.com> wrote in message news:FBv3Dv.HF6@lugnet.com... (...) probobly (...) to (...) I have heard about Lucas apparently vetoing set designs, but are we sure they actually did? I am currently re-working my Y wing to (...) (26 years ago, 18-May-99, to lugnet.cad.dat.ideas)
   
        Re: Realistic landing gear for x-wing —Greg Williams
   My gear modifications are very close to yours, Bram. My rear gear is almost exactly like yours, in fact, except I only used one cylinder brick on each side, placed at the rear portion of the 1x2 tile. I used a similar concept that you used on the (...) (26 years ago, 17-May-99, to lugnet.cad.dat.ideas)
 

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